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Felipe de Neve, 4th Governor of the Californias, led the Pobladores to found Los Angeles in 1781. Although Los Angeles was a town that was founded by Mexican families from Sonora, it was the Spanish governor of California who named the settlement.
Los pobladores del pueblo de los Ángeles (English: The townspeople of Los Angeles) refers to the 44 original settlers and 4 soldiers from New Spain (Mexico) who founded the Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles in 1781, which is now the present-day city of Los Angeles, California. When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de ...
Commandante General. Felipe de Neve y Padilla (1724 – 3 November 1784) was a Spanish soldier who served as the 4th Governor of the Californias, from 1775 to 1782. [2][3] Neve is one of the founders of Los Angeles and was instrumental in the foundation of San Jose and Santa Barbara. [4][5]
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula (English: The town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River of the Porciuncula), shortened to Pueblo de los Ángeles, was the Spanish civilian pueblo settled in 1781, which became the American metropolis of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish pobladores (settlers), [6] on a site southeast of today's Olvera Street near the Los Angeles River. They consisted of 11 families—44 men, women, and children — and were accompanied by a few Spanish soldiers. [6]
November 3, 1972. Designated LAHCM. April 1, 1970 (as 'Plaza Park') El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument, also known as Los Angeles Plaza Historic District and formerly known as El Pueblo de Los Ángeles State Historic Park, is a historic district taking in the oldest section of Los Angeles, known for many years as El Pueblo de Nuestra ...
José Vicente Tomás Féliz y Esquer ( c. 1741 – 1822) was a Spanish soldier and settler who was a member of the 1775–76 Anza expedition that brought the first settlers to California. In 1781, he was one of four soldiers which guarded the settlers which founded the settlement of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (the ...
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from New Spain established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli. This piece of history has been marked by a monument named "El Pueblo".